Beyond his trade, the historian in society

Abstract

Questioned his knowledge and its social position, the historian faces the necessity to reformulate his sense and the one of the historical discipline. Already outmoded its character as «professor of the nation», questioned its relation with social sciences, immersed in a consumer society and, for that reason, put under the swings of the market, witness of the height of the history and the disrepute of the historian, he considers again its professional genealogy and the responsibilities and the ethics of its work and its subject.